Wayne is honoured that his novel Letters From Johnny, has been featured alongside other fine authors on CBC Books’ Asian Heritage Month recommended reading list for Young adults .
The section about Wayne is reproduced below from the CBC Books’ article:
23 books for kids and young adults to celebrate Asian Heritage Month in Canada– CBC Books May 26, 2021
Letters From Johnny featured on CBC Books
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May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. To celebrate, here’s a list of 23 great Canadian books for younger readers to check out!
Letters from Johnny by Wayne Ng
Letters from Johnny is the story of 11-year-old Johnny Wong, who is living in Toronto in the 1970s on the brink of the FLQ crisis. Johnny lives with his mother, a Chinese immigrant, and develops a fatherly relationship with a local draft dodger. But when the children’s services come, questioning Johnny’s mother, and a neighbour is found murdered, Johnny begins to think that his little family is threatened — and it’s up to him to protect them.
Wayne Ng is a novelist, travel writer and social worker from Toronto, who now lives in Ottawa. He is also the author of the novel Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu.
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